Tyler Perry’s new movie sounds real Tyler Perry-y

A few weeks ago, I laid out my thesis that Tyler Perry is the least cool black guy on Earth, as his attempts at parody are like watching Dan Quayle read Ice-T lyrics. Today we’ve got some information on Perry’s next project, and although this time around there aren’t any posters parodying pop-culture, the synopsis itself is like a poster for self-parody. Jesus, I think I even confused myself with that sentence. Anyway:

Thandie Newton is set to re-team with her “For Colored Girls” director Tyler Perry on Lionsgate’s romantic drama “Good Deeds.”

Waaaaaait for it….

Perry stars as Glen Deeds, an affluent and successful entrepreneur who’s about to get married when he becomes enamored by a down-on-her-luck single mom, who will be played by Newton. [Variety]

GLEN DEEDS! A “good” Deeds who does “good deeds!” Why, it’s a multi-level, double entendre title the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Good Will Hunting, or Tango & Cash! Co-starring Thandie Newton as, and I’m only guessing here, “Poverty Temptation.”

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By: Dorian Gray

04.06.2011 @ 5:30 PM

I hope Jackee is in it.

By: chipkincaid

04.06.2011 @ 5:36 PM

Thandie Newton must not play the love interest. She doesn’t look A BIT like Winona Ryder… although she does probably steal shit…

By: Jack Burton

04.06.2011 @ 5:57 PM

Didn’t Adam Sandler already make a movie about that guy? Let me guess…Glen Deeds is a successful black man who does not appreciate the good qualities in black women, and has lost touch with his faith and community, and meeting a strong black woman who is also a single mom with a heart of gold helps him to understand what’s really important in life. Did I get it? Am I close? What did I win?

By: Lester Hayes Mayes

04.06.2011 @ 5:57 PM

When Seltzer-Freebird do their Tyler Perry “parody,” Armond White will ascend to nirvana.

By: Jack Burton

04.06.2011 @ 6:04 PM

And I didn’t even have to use the Tyler Perry Movie Plot Generator.

By: Jack Burton

04.06.2011 @ 6:24 PM

There are also only two types of black men. Rich, incredibly handsome and out of touch, or ghetto with no manners. And neither of them appreciates a strong black woman. Oh…and Madea has a gun and yells a lot. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh Tyler, will you EVER get tired of making the same movie over and over again?

By: Electric Mayhem

04.06.2011 @ 6:24 PM

Just looked it up on IMDB and was astounded to see Perry has only been perpetrating these films since 2005. It’s kind of like Pol Pot- after a certain point the shock and horror wear off and you have to give the man props for sheer brutal efficiency.

By: The Hammer

04.06.2011 @ 7:15 PM

Everytime I read a Tyler Perry article and remember that his house is about twenty times the size of where I live it makes me want to swallow a bullet.

By: spazmodic

04.06.2011 @ 7:37 PM

In my latest film I star as Glen Deeds, a creepy pervert who plows Thandie Newton in every orifice for 90 minutes.

Dirty Deeds, cumming soon!

By: Jamaal Charles's Stolen TDs

04.06.2011 @ 7:46 PM

@Electric Mayhem

Tyler Perry is the Pol Pot of Hollywood, I like it! But does that make Brett Ratner the Herman Goring? Because it should.

By: THA_REAL_A_DUBZ

04.06.2011 @ 8:12 PM

I don’t know what the fuss is about; that title seems Just Wright to me.